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While spatial phonon coherence manifested through band folding is believed to be a key factor governing the anomalous thermal conductivity of periodic structures, we investigate phonon transport from the perspective of temporal coherence.…

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The traditional picture of heat transfer in solids by atomic vibrations, also known as phonons, involves phonons scattering with each other like gas particles and is commonly referred to as the phonon gas model (PGM). This physical picture…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-11 Andrew Rohskopf , Ruiyang Li , Tengfei Luo , Asegun Henry

The last few years have seen an explosion of interest in hydrodynamic effects in interacting electron systems in ultra-pure materials. One such material, graphene, is not only an excellent platform for the experimental realization of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-07-21 Boris N. Narozhny

Two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, boron nitride and transition metal dichalcogenides, have attracted increased interest due to their potential applications in electronics and optoelectronics. Thermal transport in two-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-07 Xiaokun Gu , Ronggui Yang

Phonon heat transport in mesoscopic systems is investigated using methods analogous to the Landauer description of electrical conductance. A "universal heat conductance" expression that depends on the properties of the conducting pathway…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. E. Angelescu , M. C. Cross , M. L. Roukes

We study the heat transport due to phonons in nanomechanical structures using a phase space representation of non-equilibrium Green's functions. This representation accounts for the atomic degrees of freedom making it particularly suited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Marcone I. Sena-Junior , Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Porous graphene and graphite are increasingly utilized in electrochemical energy storage and solar-thermal applications due to their unique structural and thermal properties. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of the lattice…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 John Crosby , Haoran Cui , Yan Wang

Thermal transport in the Si/SiO$_2$ multishell nanotubes is investigated theoretically. The phonon energy spectra are obtained using the atomistic Lattice Dynamics approach. Thermal conductivity is calculated using the Boltzmann transport…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-30 C. Isacova , A. Cocemasov , D. L. Nika , V. M. Fomin

Phonon hydrodynamics describes the motions of heat carriers (phonons) at sub-continuum scales: diffusive, ballistic, viscous, and vortical. In a previous paper, these behaviours were investigated within the framework of non-equilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Liliana Restuccia , David Jou , Michal Pavelka

While phonon topology in crystalline solids has been extensively studied, its influence on thermal transport-especially in nanostructures-remains elusive. Here, by combining first-principles-based machine learning potentials with the phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhe Su , Shuoran Song , Qi Wang , Jian-Hua Jiang

Hydrodynamic second sound can be generated by heat pulses when the phonon-phonon interaction is dominantly momentum conserving, and the propagation of the temperature field becomes wavelike rather than diffusive. While the Boltzmann…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-08 Xin Qian , Chuang Zhang , Te-Huan Liu , Ronggui Yang

Recent theories and experiments have suggested hydrodynamic phonon transport features in graphite at unusually high temperatures. Here, we report a pico-second pump-probe thermal reflectance measurement of heat pulse propagation in…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-27 Jihoon Jeong , Xun Li , Sangyeop Lee , Li Shi , Yaguo Wang

The concept of coherence is one of the fundamental phenomena in electronics and optics. In addition to electron and photon, phonon, is another important energy and information carrier in nature. Without any doubt, exploration of the phonon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-03 Guofeng Xie , Ding Ding , Gang Zhang

Understanding heat transport in organic semiconductors is of fundamental and practical relevance. Therefore, we study the lattice thermal conductivities of a series of (oligo)acenes, where an increasing number of rings per molecule leads to…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-09 Lukas Legenstein , Lukas Reicht , Sandro Wieser , Michele Simoncelli , Egbert Zojer

In this paper we review thermal properties of graphene and multilayer graphene and discuss the optothermal technique developed for the thermal conductivity measurements. We also outline different theoretical approaches used for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 Alexander A. Balandin , Denis L. Nika

In this work, we present a comprehensive investigation of graphene's thermal conductivity using first-principles density functional perturbation theory calculations, with a focus on the phonon and lattice vibrational properties underlying…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-25 Archishman Gupta , Ankit Arora

Recently, three-component new fermions in topological semimetal MoP are experimentally observed, which may have potential applications like topological qubits, low-power electronics and spintronics. These are closely related to thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-07-04 San-Dong Guo

The form of energy termed heat that typically derives from lattice vibrations, i.e. the phonons, is usually considered as waste energy and, moreover, deleterious to information processing. However, with this colloquium, we attempt to rebut…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Nianbei Li , Jie Ren , Lei Wang , Gang Zhang , Peter Hänggi , Baowen Li

A generalized Hydrodynamics, referred to as Mesoscopic Hydro-Thermodynamics, of phonons in semiconductors is presented. It involves the descriptions of the motion of the quasi-particle density and of the energy density. The hydrodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-11-05 A. R. Vasconcellos , A. R. B. Castro , C. A. B. Silva , R. Luzzi

Predictive modeling of the phonon/thermal transport properties of materials is vital to rational design for a diverse spectrum of engineering applications. Classical Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations serve as a tool to simulate the time…